X-ray observations throughout the orbital cycle of AN UMa during its low state were conducted with the Einstein Observatory simultaneously with ground-based optical UBV photometry and spectroscopy. The observed low X-ray flux of 7X 10-l3 ergs cm-2 s-I is a factor of 40 below the high-state X-ray flux, and FX/Fqt is about a factor of 50 lower than for AM Her and 2A 031 1-227. There is marginal e...

Z. Naturforsch. 55 b, 238-242 (2000); received Oktober 10, 1999 IR Data, Chalcogenides, Molybdenum, Tungsten Red-brown crystals of a new bis(thiomolybdate) complex [Me4N]3[(MoOS3)2Ag] were formed at room temperature through the reaction of a solution of [Me4N]2[MoOS3] in MeCN with solid AgCN. They are monoclinic, space group P2i/c with unit cell parameters a = 16.662(9), b = 9.464(3), c = 17.89...

Introduction Many variants in the NLRP3 gene are associated with a particular spectrum of autoinflammatory diseases or hereditary recurrent fevers (HRFs), including familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome (FCAS), Muckle Wells Syndrome (MWS), and chronic infantile neurologic, cutaneous and articular syndrome (CINCA), also known as neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID). These ar...

Several studies have reported limited or no reduction in serum cholesterol in response to probiotic formulations. Recently, probiotics have shown promise in treating metabolic disease due to improved strain selection and delivery technologies. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the cholesterol-lowering efficacy of a yoghurt formulation containing microencapsulated bile salt hydrolase ...

The degree of deacetylation and molecular weight of carboxymethyl-chitin (CM) were manipulated using 10% (w/v) NaOH aqueous solution at 25 ̊C and 5 M HCl aqueous solution at 40 ̊C, respectively. The resultant CMs were characterized by 1 H-NMR spectroscopy and size exclusion chromatography/multi-angle light scattering. The degree of deacetylation of 7 – 35% (mol/mol) and molecular weight of 43,000...

In this study, the influence of the salts as an additive on the performance of the membrane was investigated and an extensive work was performed to optimize PVDF hollow fiber membranes through a response surface methodology (RSM). The prepared membranes were characterized by SEM, contact angle and LEP measurement. Then, the RSM was used for the optimization of surface pore size, porosity and hy...